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Victoria Falls (Lozi: Mosi-oa-Tunya, "Thundering Smoke"; Tonga: Shungu Namutitima, "Boiling Water") is a waterfall on the Zambezi River, located on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. [2] It is one of the world's largest waterfalls, with a width of 1,708 m (5,604 ft).
Victoria Falls, popularly known as Vic Falls, is a resort town and city in the province of Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe. It lies on the southern bank of the Zambezi River at the western end of Victoria Falls themselves. According to the 2022 Population Census, the town had a population of 35,199.
English: Aerial panoramic view of the Victoria Falls of the Zambezi River, border between Zambia and Zimbabwe.The Victoria Falls is the largest sheet of falling water in the world based on its combined width of 1,708 metres (5,604 ft) and height of 108 metres (354 ft).
European explorers often preferred to give waterfalls names in their own language; for instance, David Livingstone named Victoria Falls after Queen Victoria, though it was known by local peoples as Mosi-oa-Tunya. Many waterfalls have descriptive names which can come from the river they are on, places they are near, their features, or events ...
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The bridge under construction in 1905 Victoria Falls Bridge from the Knife Edge Bridge trail near the falls on the Zambia side. Constructed from steel, the bridge is 198 metres (650 ft) [1] long, with a main arch spanning 156.50 metres (513.5 ft), [3] at a height of 128 metres (420 ft) [3] above the lower water mark of the river in the gorge ...
Livingstone is a city in Zambia. [1] Until 1935, it served as the capital of Northern Rhodesia.Lying 10 km (6 mi) to the north of the Zambezi River, it is a tourism attraction center for the Victoria Falls [2] [3] [4] and a border town with road and rail connections to Zimbabwe on the other side of the Victoria Falls.
The Co-op's reputation was so great that Columbia University invited manager Jack Cella to either open a branch in New York City or leave and open a new store there. Until the university gained its own neighborhood academic bookstore in the late 1990s, many Columbia scholars ordered books from the Co-op. [3] Currently, the Co-op has over 53,000 ...